The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath, Maine
Author: Henry Wilson Owen
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 548
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Author: Henry Wilson Owen
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 548
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Published: 1995-05-01
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 9780832846878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Wilson Owen
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Freidel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780674375604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEditions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.
Author: Edward Clarence Plummer
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry Gratwick
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1614231346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover 400 years of New England history you won’t find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State. Maine wouldn’t be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to ever win a Major League Baseball batting championship, Hidden History of Maine reveals the men and women who made history without making it into history books.
Author: James H. Ellis
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0875866905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn entertaining, well-researched study details naval battles and coastal incursions through diaries and regional news articles on the War of 1812. New England was hard hit by the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The war severely injured the maritime and commercial economy and inflamed the difference in interests between the Northeast and the rest of the country, where agriculture was the mainstay. The author has combed sources near and far, bringing to life a drama that was international in scope? but so local in impact.
Author: Nathan Lipfert
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 695
ISBN-13: 1608936821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the moment colonists at Popham launched the first ship constructed in the New World in 1608, Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse. Celebrating the bicentennial of Maine, historian Nathan Lipfert, in cooperation with the Maine Maritime Museum explores the rich history of Maine shipbuilding. Though concentrating primarily on shipbuilding activity in the two centuries since statehood, the book begins with pre-1820 activity, including native canoe-making (the oldest known birchbark canoe is in a Maine museum) and colonial-period shipbuilding. Covering the entire coast, this rich visual history focuses on the industry and the vessels produced, highlighting Maine’s national and international importance in shipbuilding over the past two centuries, and its continuing relevance to national security, the fisheries, yachting and harbor craft.
Author: John Frederick Martin
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 146960003X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Martin's study will challenge historians to rethink not only social history but also the cultural history of early New England. Instead of taking sides in the long-standing debate between Puritan scholars and business historians, Martin identifies strains within Puritanism and the rest of the colonists' culture that both discouraged and encouraged land commerce, both supported and undermined communalism, both hindered and hastened development of the wilderness. Rather than portray colonists one-dimensionally, Martin analyzes how several different and competing ethics coexisted within a single, complex, and vibrant New England culture.
Author: Leland J. Hanchett, Jr.
Publisher: Pine Rim Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0692941355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor our third book on stagecoach history, we have chosen the stage routes connecting Maine's three capitals, Boston, Portland and Augusta. Preceding stagecoach travel in the west by at least forty years, travel in the east started in the late 18th century and was in full swing until the railroads took over in the 1840s. Subjects covered include an overview of why Maine's capital moved from Boston to Portland and finally to Augusta; the building of the stage roads; formation of the stage lines; taverns and inns along the way and personal accounts of travel and experiences on the stage routes. Over 100 black and white images coupled with twenty-two color photos provide a unique glimpse into Maine's past.